Moqtada al-Sadr's protesters live chiefly in Basra (they didn't come into Baghdad today) and in the Sadr section (usually called "slum") of Baghdad. That last group has been protesting in Baghdad, outside the Green Zone, on his orders.

The initial breach was mostly peaceful, but
around sunset security forces fired teargas and bullets into the air in
an effort to stop more protesters from entering. Around a dozen people
were wounded, police sources said.A United Nations spokesman and Western
diplomats said their compounds inside the Green Zone were locked down. A
U.S. embassy spokesman denied reports of evacuation.Iraqi
security personnel and Sadr's militiamen formed a joint force to
control crowds of protesters, most of whom had left parliament, a source
in Sadr's office told Reuters.All
entrances of Baghdad were temporarily shut "as a precautionary measure
to maintain the capital's security," another security official said.

Again, thug Nouri al-Maliki is the immediate winner. RUDAW notes:Former Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called the storming of the
parliament dangerous and called for all Iraqis to stand against it.Maliki also criticized Abadi for trying to announce a new cabinet during
protests which make it difficult for all lawmakers to attend the vote.
“That is not reform when there are threats and representatives of the
people cannot go to the parliament to express their ideas.”

And if the dumb ass with blood on his hands read Arabic, he'd be fully aware of how Haider's 'technocrats' have been mocked repeatedly because they aren't.

Not the first slate he proposed as March came to an end and not the current slate.

They're not 'technocrats.'

Calling them that doesn't make it so.

State of Law supporters are on social media as well.

They're largely spreading rumors.

Most outrageous one? Moqtada spent all that time in Iran in the last decade because he has a boyfriend he keeps there.

This is really a battle between Nouri and Moqtada.

It always has been -- even before Haider showed up as prime minister.

Moqtada's been held check many times by Nouri because Nouri's held on to the arrest warrant for Moqtada all this time.

It's why Moqtada spent so much time out of Iraq.

It's probably why, even now, he gave his speech today -- inciting the followers -- from Najaf and not from Baghdad. [Mohammed Tawfeeq, Alanne Orjoux and Hamdi Alkhshali (CNN) note, "They hailed Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who sparked the protests with
a fiery speech on Saturday in the city of Najaf, about 100 miles south
of the capital."]

Najaf forces would never arrest Moqtada.

And the forces are part of the problem.

BBC NEWS notes, "Members of the Sadrist militia group Saraya al-Salam were keeping order in the area, news agencies said."

Moqtada's zombies weren't allowed in the federal forces under Nouri.

Haider's let them in and the end result is Baghdad's Green Zone (the only protected area in Iraq) can no longer be secured.

The chaos in the Iraqi capital comes hours after a visit by Vice
President Biden that was intended to help calm the political unrest and
keep the battle against the Islamic State on track.

As Biden’s
plane was approaching Baghdad on Thursday, a senior administration
official described the vice president’s visit — which was shrouded in
secrecy prior to his arrival — as a “symbol of how much faith we have in
Prime Minister Abadi.”
After 10 hours on the ground in Baghdad and Irbil, Biden was hurtling
towards his next stop in Rome. The feeling among the vice president and
his advisers was that Iraqi politics were on a trajectory to greater
calm and that the battle against the Islamic State would continue to
accelerate. Some hopeful advisers on Biden’s plane even suggested that
Abadi might emerge from the political crisis stronger for having
survived it.

The @VP met with Prime Minister @HaiderAlAbadi for nearly 90 minutes today at the Government Palace in Baghdad.

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Meanwhile, the US Defense Dept announced today:

Strikes in IraqBomber, ground-attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft
conducted 17 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s
government:-- Near Al Qaim, a strike struck an ISIL vehicle-bomb facility.-- Near Fallujah, four strikes struck two separate ISIL
tactical units and destroyed two ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL
vehicle, an ISIL vehicle bomb, an ISIL used bridge, and an ISIL tank.-- Near Habbaniyah, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position and an ISIL mortar system.-- Near Hit, a strike destroyed an ISIL mortar system.-- Near Kirkuk, four strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical
units and destroyed four ISIL vehicle bombs, an ISIL vehicle, an ISIL
supply cache, four ISIL weapons caches, four ISIL assembly areas, two
ISIL tunnel systems, an ISIL front end loader, an ISIL excavator, four
ISIL fighting positions, three ISIL-used bridges, an ISIL bed down
location, and an ISIL tactical vehicle.-- Near Mosul, two strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical
units and destroyed three ISIL assembly areas, two ISIL bed down
locations, two ISIL fighting positions, and an ISIL weapons cache.-- Near Qayyarah, three strikes struck three separate ISIL
tactical units and destroyed three ISIL rocket rails, five ISIL rockets,
and an ISIL vehicle.-- Near Waleed, a strike produced inconclusive results.

Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic
events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a
single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a
single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle
is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons
against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for
example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or
impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not
report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number
of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual
munition impact points against a target.

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